Whilst browsing the library a fortnight ago, and struggling to find a book that picked my fancy, I found a book titled One Hundred Names. I picked it up, read the blurb on the inside cover, and was intrigued.
I took it to Perth with me and shared with some young girls what the story was about so far and they were eager to know how it would end. We each had our own ideas, but I had to finish the book in order to find out.
It is an amazingly well written story about a woman named Kitty, who after making a big journalistic mistake, finds it hard to believe in herself. Yet she finds herself in the position of being given a list of 100 Names and told to find the story.
Through most of the book Kitty expects that the people on her list are connected in some way, or that their stories are connected. As she listens to their stories she is concerned that there is no connection and she has no idea what the story is supposed to be about. The story that she has only two weeks to discover and write.
As Kitty connects with each person she interviews she is amazed by each person, not necessarily by their story. And she discovers that everyone has a story, and everyone’s story is worth sharing.
How can she write just one story? Whose will she choose? You’ll have to read the book to find out.
One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern
Thoughts on Life 